Bill
Communications Legislation Amendment (Deregulation and Other Measures) Bill 2019
passed, as at 2019-12-12. Communications and the Arts portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Communications and the Arts
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2019-10-16
- second reading — 2019-10-16
- second reading — 2019-11-25
- second reading — 2019-11-25
- third reading — 2019-11-25
- introduced — 2019-11-27
- second reading — 2019-11-27
- second reading — 2019-12-05
- second reading — 2019-12-05
- third reading — 2019-12-05
- passed — 2019-12-05
- royal assent — 2019-12-12
Divisions
No divisions recorded. Most questions are decided on the voices; this does not establish that a bill was unopposed.
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2019-10-16.
The bill would cut red tape in broadcasting and telecommunications while keeping consumer protections.
It would change reporting rules, classification standards, and numbering management, and let the minister pick an industry body to run numbering instead of the ACMA.
The bill would also let NBN companies sell surplus non-communications goods to anyone and remove NBN Co's power to issue fibre installation statements.
- Remove duplicate reporting requirements for licensees and controllers to the ACMA.
- Let the minister appoint an industry-based numbering manager instead of the ACMA.
- Stop the ACCC from issuing tariff filing directions to carriers and service providers.
- Allow NBN companies to sell surplus non-communications goods to any person.
- Repeal NBN Co's ability to issue statements about not installing fibre in new developments.
- Abolish the ACMA's requirement to consult an advisory committee before declaring submarine cable protection zones.
Broadcasters, telecommunications carriers, service providers, NBN companies, the ACMA, the ACCC, and the minister.
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